Tommi Kärkkäinen

Tommi Kärkkäinen received a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Information Technology from the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) in 1995. Since 2002, he has been serving as a full professor of Mathematical Information Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), JYU. TK has led 50 different R&D projects and has been supervising over 60 PhD students. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. TK received the Innovation Prize of JYU in 2010. He has served in many administrative positions at FIT and JYU, currently leading a Research Division and a Research Group on Human and Machine based Intelligence in Learning. The main research interests include machine learning, learning analytics, brain research, and nanotechnology. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Publications

Adapting Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Using Explainable Student Agency Analytics
Adapting Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Using Explainable Student Agency Analytics
Ville Heilala, Päivikki Jääskelä, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Kärkkäinen. © 2024. 32 pages.
This chapter deals with the learning analytics technique called student agency analytics and explores its foundational technologies and their potential implications for adaptive...
A Topic-Case Driven Methodology for Web Course Design
A Topic-Case Driven Methodology for Web Course Design
Leena Hiltunen, Tommi Kärkkäinen. © 2008. 19 pages.
A topic-case driven methodology for a web course design and realization process is based on software engineering metaphors for capturing the necessary steps in creating web...